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Dec.05.2010
(A version of this posting with photos--for a fuller understanding--is on view at "A Curious Man." )
In my last article here, I mentioned how Elizabeth and I cut short our Thanksgiving visit due to an approaching storm and concern about our “adored and elderly friend.” It turned...
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Dec.05.2010
(A version of this posting with photos--for a fuller understanding--is on view at "A Curious Man." )
In my last article here, I mentioned how Elizabeth and I cut short our Thanksgiving visit due to an approaching storm and concern about our “adored and elderly friend.” It turned...
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Oct.07.2010
When I was writing a personal essay about my first marriage at eighteen to a man I affectionately call PsychoTeacher, I sent a draft to my friend, Cynthia, in Texas. My family life as a child and teenager was fairly pickled in black humor (somehow it went with the martinis--my brother and I fought...
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Sep.13.2010
Print or online publication?
Until a few years ago, there was no question in my mind that my literary efforts in short stories and personal essays must appear in print. The more known or prestigious the publication, the more I will enjoy the golden stardust of recognition and literary glory.
Last...
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Nov.09.2009
It's Day #9 of the Write Nonfiction in November challenge! We've covered a lot of ground already, and I thought we'd take a break from the business side of nonfiction writing to talk a bit about actual writing—memoir writing to be exact.
Memoir writing represents an area of nonfiction writing I...
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Nov.03.2009
I met Brenda Miller at the Get Lit! festival this past April, almost two years after I first read her wonderful essay “Blessing of the Animals” in The Sun. I was reminded of the exquisite beauty of her writing when I heard her read and promptly devoured her new book (titled after that essay) as...
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Nov.02.2009
Hi, there!
There are only two more weeks to sign up for my brand-spanking-new Intro to the Personal Essay class at The Writing Salon, and after an incredible, three-day weekend alone at a friend's palatial estate in Sonoma, doing nothing but researching, reading, and writing lesson plans (OK, maybe...
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Sep.24.2009
Hi, everyone!
I wanted to let you know about three classes I'm teaching at The Writing Salon this fall:
*Intro to Creative Writing (9 wks., Tuesdays, 7-9:30 p.m., Oct. 13-Dec. 8, $365):
http://www.writingsalons.com/class-descriptions/introcw-pritchett/
*Intro to Personal Essays (5 wks., Saturdays,...
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Sep.17.2009
www.writingsalons.com
Intro to Personal Essays - Get ready, get set, GO!
Five Saturdays, Nov. 14-Dec. 19 (skip 11/28), 2-4:30 p.m. San Francisco$185 members/$215 others
Have you always wanted to write about your crazy family? What about an accident that changed the course of your life? A...
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Aug.07.2009
My obsession is with the truth. I suppose that’s because I did not feel I could tell my own truth for so long. I grew up as a flannel-wearing farm girl who had a thing for other girls, which I was certain had damned me to hell. I gradually made peace with the idea that a god who forbade love was...
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